OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization: Fragmentation and Missing Data	59
Estimating the Ontogenetic Age and Sex Composition of Faunal Assemblages with Bayesian Multilevel Mixture Models	24
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	18
Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven	17
Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship and Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 cal BP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherd	17
Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia	17
Beautiful, Magic, Lethal: a Social Perspective of Cinnabar Use and Mercury Exposure at the Valencina Copper Age Mega-site (Spain)	17
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	16
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	14
Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables	13
Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective	13
New Methods for Old Questions: The Use of Elliptic Fourier Analysis for the Formal Study of Palaeolithic Art	12
Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve David, Israel	12
The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost	11
The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre	11
The Taphonomy of Status: The Creation of Group Identity and Social Inequality in Medieval Croatia	11
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	10
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design: Ceramic Typology, Design Elements/Styles, and Design Symmetries on Chihuahuan Polychromes	10
Stability Through Movement: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Social Space in Central European Neolithic Lakeside Settlements	9
Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe	9
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site: Implications for Early Paleoindian Group Size	9
Quantitative Dental Mesowear Analysis in Domestic Caprids: a New Method to Reconstruct Management Strategies	9
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	9
Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem	8
Applications of Microct Imaging to Archaeobotanical Research	8

The Time of the Stones: A Call for Palimpsest Dissection to Explore Lithic Record Formation Processes	8
Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus	8
A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters	7
Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks	7
Site-Seeing in Mallorca? Exploring the Visual Influence of Architecture and Location in Talayotic Iron Age Sites in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)	7
Oral Storytelling and Knowledge Transmission in Upper Paleolithic Children and Adolescents	6
Testing the Effect of Learning Conditions and Individual Motor/Cognitive Differences on Knapping Skill Acquisition	6
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives	6
A Burning Platform? Critical Reflections on the Impact of Research on the Developing Bioarchaeology of Cremation	6
Searching for the Individual: Characterising Knowledge Transfer and Skill in Prehistoric Personal Ornament Making	6
Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)	6
Concordia salus: Becoming Brass Projectiles	6
Identifying the Impact of Soil Ingestion on Dental Microwear Textures Using a Wild Boar Experimental Model	6
Making Rock Art: Correspondences, Rhythms, and Temporalities	6
Archaeological and Experimental Lithic Microwear Classification Through 2D Textural Analysis and Machine Learning	6
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timing and Zoogeography of Domesticated Horse Arrivals in Mongolia and China	6
Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis	5
Culture and Evolvability: a Brief Archaeological Perspective	5
The Temporality of Shapes: A Genealogy of Early Pottery-Making Practices in the Andean–Amazonian Borderland	5
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	5
Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions	5
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: on the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores	5